Shadow of the Wood

Chapter 260 Second Lord

Knowing that Renren found his trace, Shikamaru decided to leave here. He was not sure whether the three dead souls who had been killed by the sword had spread his news to the black market. Although he was not afraid of the enemy, he did not want to cause a lot of trouble. Therefore, he has long since abandoned the hairstyle of the Nara clan that has been maintained for many years. Now he simply tiees his long hair into a ponytail hanging behind his head with strips of white cloth, and wears a service kimono made of coarse cloth. The wide hat makes it difficult to see the face clearly.

In order to prevent being poisoned, Shikamaru doesn’t even spend money to buy food, but just picks up some things and leaves a fortune when passing by people’s houses or shops, which also allows him to avoid going to crowded urban areas as much as possible .

Compared with the stable and prosperous Fire Country, the Tian Country where Shikamaru is now can only be described as chaotic and disorderly. Neither the daimyo of the country nor Orochimaru, who founded Otonin Village, seem to be in the mood to manage this country and care about it. The life and death of the people, without a strong ruling organization, coupled with the domineering lord and the increasingly impoverished situation, people have to use more radical means to find a way out, robbers, thieves, bandits..., and even cults, in this country Crimes happen from time to time. For travelers who come from other places and have no protection power, every local person may become a criminal. Some criminal gangs are even composed of ninjas left behind from the former ninja village of Tanokuni. They belonged to unpopular roles, but to ordinary people, they were already one-in-a-million warriors, and the people behind them were likely to have a lot of connections with some local lord officials.

Shikamaru stood quietly in the shadow of the fire, watching a group of cult priests with torches, wearing white robes and high hats, going to collect money from people everywhere, looking thoughtful.

This country has fallen into a sick and blind state. The people are numb and poor. They are the bottom of the oppressed, unable to resist reality. Above them, some strongmen with their own force are lawless, and those with power compete with each other. Squeezing the rights of civilians, those religions with so-called "mutual aid associations", and a sect, all have this purpose, and on top of that, are officials and nobles who have the army and regular ruling power, They don't care, and they don't want to know the life and death of the civilians below. For them, everything in this country belongs to the daimyo, and now the daimyo doesn't care about everything. It doesn't matter whether everything they do is good or bad. However, it is fundamental to fight for the interests of oneself and the family. Many local crimes and cult gangs are more or less related to them.

In fact, even if one or two officials want to manage, without sufficient organizational strength, they can barely manage their surrounding areas, and it is difficult to supervise the boundaries and subordinate units that are a little further away.

In Shikamaru's eyes, the country is now like a broken ship that is about to sink to the bottom of the sea. Everyone's thinking is not to plug the loopholes, but to scramble to dismantle the boards on the ship, hoping to survive by this when the crisis comes, and find another A big ship, as for those ordinary people who have neither the ability nor the tools to disassemble the planks, they can only wait for death silently.

Shikamaru somewhat understands why Orochimaru launched an aggressive war against the Country of Grass not long ago. Today's Tianzhi Country has no squeezing value for Orochimaru. In his eyes, those ninjas in Tian Zhiguo who were willing to degenerate in the market were useless garbage, not even qualified to be guinea pigs.

"Maggots." Shikamaru looked at a tall man among a group of cult priests. As he practiced, his mind gradually became round and crystal clear as a whole, his heart was pure and flawless, and his intuition became sharper. , can feel the hostility and danger from the outside world even more. Even if he is far away at this time, without too much observation, Shikamaru can find that the man has a chakra that is far stronger than the surrounding accomplices and ordinary people.

Seeing a group of people walking towards their own direction, Shikamaru no longer continued to observe, turned around and escaped into the darkness, made finger seals, escaped through the space, and came to his hiding place.

"Yin and yang..." After returning to the hiding place, Shikamaru did not immediately immerse himself in the battle with the eight-tailed fierce bull, but crawled in front of the window, unconsciously playing with the "yingxiu" in his hand, and fell into deep thought. middle.

Tailed beasts are actually made of energy from the Sages of the Six Paths and have no entity, but they are indeed growing and can fight like entities, lifelike.

Conversely, they can also turn into groups of intangible chakras, and when needed, the chakras can be recondensed into a solid form. Even after being killed and torn apart, they can still restore their bodies under the passage of time.

What is this achieved by?Let the energy live as a body, and fight out of the body?

Shikamaru can rely on "Yingxiu" to store spiritual energy, which will not disperse after being away from the body, but if the storage of "Yingxiu" is lost, the spiritual energy will still not be able to leave his body, or it will need physical energy to play a role. The role of the container?

Shikamaru wants to make his chakra able to change freely even when he is out of the body. In this regard, he only has some original information in his mind as a reference for new techniques, including the tailed beast itself, Kato Dan's "spiritualization technique" , and even Naruto Uzumaki's "Senjutsu. Wind escape. Spiral Shuriken".

In the original book, Kato Duan once relied on spiritualization to get his spirit out of his body, he went out of his body during the day, flew freely, and finally gave Chakra to Tsunade, healed her injuries and replenished Chakra. Looking at it, this really represents one of them Contains plenty of healthy energy.

Thinking about this, Shikamaru walked to the bed, sat cross-legged, extracted the eight-tailed chakra from the seal of the lower abdomen, and then waves of dark red energy gradually wrapped Shikamaru's body.

Even if the Chakra eaten by Eight-Tails is only a small amount, it is extremely huge to Shikamaru. His body absorbs it all the time and transforms it into his own Chakra, but the speed is still far behind.

Shikamaru opened his eyes and observed the chakra that wrapped his whole body. There was no influence of the eight tails in the chakra, and it was actually the body energy, but there were still faintly forming two horns on Shikamaru's head, and there was another chakra forming a tail behind him. Swing around.

Seeing this, Shikamaru had a flash of inspiration in his mind, looked at Chakra who vaguely maintained the outline of the eight tails, and muttered to himself: "It's no wonder I have to see them change as they please."

Putting physical energy and spiritual energy together simply forms ordinary chakra, physical energy cannot protect spiritual energy, and is useless.

Shikamaru pondered, he needs to seal the power to complete this new technique, to integrate the spiritual energy and physical energy into a whole without interfering, especially physical energy, which must protect the spiritual energy like a body. As for dissipating.

The gossip seal is a very ingenious sealing technique, and sealing the tailed beast is not even its limit. The Fourth Hokage, who has a deep understanding of this technique, even sealed the spiritual energy of himself and his wife together with Kyuubi in the original work. Uzumaki Naruto's body, to help him tame Nine Tails, as long as a little change, it should be able to play a role.

Shikamaru's mouth could not help but reveal a smile. Although it still needs to be practiced to verify its authenticity and correctness, at least all of this has a clue!

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Shikamaru sat cross-legged on the hard wooden bed, with his eyes closed and his face calm.

For the past few days, he has stayed in his hiding place to develop new techniques, abandoned some foreign affairs, concentrated on thinking, and finally achieved something.

On the surface of Shikamaru's body, two jet-black and light-green energies gradually rolled endlessly. Spiritual energy and physical energy intertwined with each other, but they were incompatible with each other. All of Shikamaru's spirits gradually converged into the two energies On top of that, as time passed, an increasingly intense sense of oppression permeated his spirit, as if he was wearing an iron suit and shackles, and there were heavy constraints on his body.

He struggled hard, just as he was climbing towards the light in the womb when he was reborn.

Swish!

The light green physical energy and the pitch-black spiritual energy gradually merged together, separated from Shikamaru's body, and formed a whole body with a light golden light in front of him, turning into a figure in the blink of an eye, Except for the slightly transparent body and the pale golden light, it is the same as Shikamaru's image at this time.

Shikamaru, who woke up from samadhi, turned around and looked back, what caught his eyes was the body of "myself" sitting cross-legged, breathing weakly, face calm, body motionless, as if falling into a deep sleep.

Shikamaru walked slowly around, but he didn't dare to stay too far away from the physical body. He could clearly feel the connection between himself and the body, and the extremely weak energy was continuously consumed between movements. With a movement in his heart, The body became more and more transparent, and the whole person suddenly floated in midair, and then suddenly rushed downwards, and disappeared into the ground. After a while, he emerged from the ground not far away.

After wandering and floating like this for a long time, Shikamaru's body gradually became more solid, turning the emptiness into reality, took out a kunai from the ninja tool bag of the physical body, and groaned and slashed open his left palm.

laugh!

Kumaru drew an astonishing wound on his palm, but then it healed slowly, Shikamaru frowned slightly, he could feel that the speed of energy consumption just now was much faster, in other words, although His current state can ignore physical attacks, but there is a limit to the number of times.

After Shikamaru controlled the energy body and turned around the room for a long time, he slowly returned to the bed, and after a while, he woke up moaning.

One moment he was able to fly freely in mid-air, shuttle objects to nothing, and the next moment he was able to enter the mortal body again, which actually made Shikamaru feel a little bit disappointed, but he quickly dismissed the idea.

This technique is not perfect, not to mention that he has just started learning about Yang Dun, the reason why the tailed beasts cannot be completely killed may be the help of the power of the ten tails themselves, but they grew from the young form when they were first born to this The temporal form shows that they are indeed relying on some kind of energy to enhance their own strength. Uzumaki Naruto's "Senjutsu. Wind Dun. Spiral Shuriken" can attack from a distance without the body, and it is also because of the natural energy replenishment and To maintain, this ninjutsu named by Shikamaru as "the master of heaven" is faintly hoped by him. In its complete state, it may require the integration of spiritual energy, physical energy and natural energy to form a self-sufficient, non-stop Then stick to the whole body, similar to the existence of a tailed beast!